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Kusaya

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Japan

Kusaya

쿠사야

Salted-dried and fermented fish produced in the Izu Islands

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Kusaya (くさや) is a salted, dried and fermented fish that is produced in the Izu Islands, Japan. It has a pungent smell and is similar to the fermented Swedish herring surströmming.

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